Review of UNE APPROCHE DE LA SOCIOMETRIE by Genevieve Dreyfus-See from the French journal Education et developpement

Abstract

Mme. Dreyfus-See has undertaken a sociometric analysis of the American film Twelve Angry Men (Douze hommes en colere, in French), story by Reginald Rose, directed by Sidney Lumet. The author uses the method of direct quotation from J. L. Moreno's Who Shall Survive? applied to significant points in the movie script to demonstrate the sociometric formation and development of a group of jurors (the twelve angry men) as they attempt to come to a unanimous verdict of guilty or not guilty in the trial of an 18 year-old Puerto Rican youth accused of killing his father.